Title
An RSS-feed auditory aggregator using earcons
Abstract
In this work we present a data sonification framework based on parallel/concurrent sonic earcons' representations for monitoring in real-time information related to stock market. The information under consideration is conveyed through the well-known Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed Internet mechanism and includes both text and numeric values, converted to speech and earcons using existing speech synthesis techniques and sonic design guidelines. Due to the considered application characteristics, particular emphasis is provided on information representation concurrency, mainly achieved using sound source spatialization techniques and different timbre characteristics. Spatial positioning of sound sources is performed through typical binaural processing and reproduction. A number of systematic, subjective assessments performed have shown that the overall perceptual efficiency and sonic representation accuracy fulfills the overall application requirements, provided that the users are appropriately trained prior to using the proposed RSS-feed auditory aggregator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2095667.2095681
Audio Mostly Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
considered application characteristic,overall application requirement,overall perceptual efficiency,real-time information,rss-feed auditory aggregator,existing speech synthesis technique,sound source,information representation concurrency,sonic representation accuracy,sonic design guideline,concurrent sonic earcons,really simple syndication,speech synthesis,auditory display,real time
Speech synthesis,News aggregator,Concurrency,Computer science,Speech recognition,Sonification,Binaural recording,Timbre,RSS,Spatialization
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Athina Bikaki110.35
Andreas Floros28016.12